A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala

About the Online Dictionary

The immediate purpose of this dictionary is to provide a readily-accessible resource of the Ch'orti' language. Toward this purpose, I have carefully selected some 1,530 terms from the database for the online version of this data. A larger dictionary with five times the data as the online version has been prepared and will hopefully be published in the next few years. This online version of some 1,530 words is intended to appeal to the different varieties of interested parties in the Ch'orti' language. Therefore, with a larger, general audience in mind, no effort will be made to preface the dictionary with a grammatical analysis of Ch'orti', which resides well outside the scope of this present project. However, for each main entry, a grammatical category will be assigned. A detailed grammatical description of the Ch'orti' language will be treated more fully in Hull and Wichmann (in preparation). I would refer readers to the published resources which discuss the grammar of Ch'orti' (e.g. Fought 1967, 1972; Lubeck and Cowie 1989; MacLeod 1987; Oakley 1966; Pérez Martínez 1994; Pérez Martínez et al. 1996; Quizar 1979, 1994a, 1994b; among others). I would most strongly recommend the excellent grammatical sketch of Ch'orti' done by Søren Wichmann (1999).

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